Today we went to Gammon's Gulch, about 20 miles outside Benson in the boonies. It has been under "construction" since 1971. The man who owns it and has built it (that's him playing the banjo) is the son of John Wayne's body guard, he has old pictures to prove it. He said he's always wanted his own western town but couldn't afford to buy one so he built his own. Some buildings are originals that he moved there, other he's built. There have been 40 some movies that have used his town, mostly westerns. I suspect they were B movies, he has been in several of them. He was 11 when he was a drummer boy leading a funeral procession in El Dorado with John Wayne & Robert Mitchum.
It's getting nicer out, the wind has finally returned to a gently breeze, and it's in the high 60s.
